New Curtiss-Wright Facility Brings 100 Texas Jobs
Texas officials joined Baytown and Chambers County leaders to celebrate the $36 million state-of-the-art Curtiss-Wright Flow Control facility in Cedar Crossing. The project, begun September 2010, will produce large vessels and equipment for refining and petrochemical markets and support valve production for severe-service industries. It has booked $17 million in new orders and is described as one of the industry’s most modern purpose-built plants.
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Texas
Hope Andrade
Baytown
Chambers County
Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Co
Cedar Crossing
Curtiss-Wright
David J. Linton
Persevering War Hero Hobart Enoch Remembered in Baytown
Former Baytown resident Hobart Enoch is remembered for wartime valor and postwar service. He endured a severe head injury in Europe, wrote poetry in recovery, and inspired others while serving as Goose Creek tax assessor and community volunteer. He died May 10 in Walnut Creek California at age 88. Graveside services with military honors were held Monday at Memory Gardens Cemetery.
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Hobart
Europe
Death
Walnut Creek
Calif
Jimmye
California
Janet Nolen
Memory Gardens
Ken Goodell
Janet
Baytown
Randolph Jones
Jones
Houston
Goose Creek
Grace United Methodist Church
Index Weather Calendar Brief
The daily weather outlook notes a sunny day with a high near 82 and a low around 63. No significant events or notices accompany the forecast.
Beach City to fight utility rate increase in special meeting
Beach City Council to hold a special 6 p.m. meeting today to discuss alternatives to a controversial water and sewer rate rise by private provider T&S Taylor. Mayor Billy Combs invites ratepayers officials and media. officials like Ray Smith and Rusty Senac question legal costs and fundraisers.
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Beach City
T&s Taylor
Billy Combs
Ray Smith
Chambers County
Rusty Senac
Combs
Write-in Candidate Sharon Brown Wins Anahuac City Council Seat
In Anahuac on Saturday write-in candidate Sharon Brown defeated Francis Len Hughes for Position 3 by 50 to 45 votes. Brown expressed honor at her election despite not filing in time and noted rising write-in interest, as Mayor Sue Hawthorne observed growing support for nonballot candidates.
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Anahuac
Sharon Brown
Francis Len Hughes
Sue Hawthorne
Art League Spring Show draws artists and fans
Artists and their friends crowd the Baytown Art Center on Texas Avenue as winners of the Art League's Spring Show were announced. See league page 8.
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Baytown Art Center
Texas Avenue
Art League
Art League Spring Show Honors Winners and Recipients
Art League President Bobby Sutphin adjusts a winning painting on the podium during a reception honoring winners and league scholarship recipients. The Best in Show is Beth Reed, Best Floral by Patricia Walsh, and a scholarship recipient Rosa Cantu is pictured with her work.
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Art League
Bobby Sutphin
Beth Reed
Patricia Walsh
Rosa Cantu
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